| Description |
ix, 258 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: What is 'Gothic'? -- 1. Historicizing the Gothic -- 2. The Gothic Aesthetic: The Gothic as Discourse -- 3. The Hygienic Self: Gender in the Gothic -- 4. Narratives of Nurture -- 5. Narratives of Descent -- 6. Radcliffe and Interiority: Towards the Making of the Mysteries of Udolpho -- 7. Horrid Shadows: The Gothic in Northanger Abbey -- 8. Avatars of Matthew Lewis's The Monk: Ann Radcliffe's The Italian and Charlotte Dacre's Zofloya: Or, The Moor -- 9. The Poetic Tale of Terror: Christabel, the Eve of St Agnes and Lamia -- 10. Conclusion: Lee's Kruitzner and Byron's Werner |
| Summary |
Gothic writing has enjoyed a revival in recent years and many lesser-known titles have been republished. Traditional approaches analysed the Gothic in terms of escapist fantasy or as an unconscious reaction against the Enlightenment. In this provocative and timely study Robert Miles challenges this view and argues that the could read Gothic texts as self-conscious interventions. Drawing extensively on the ideas of Michel Foucault he situates Gothic writing within the discursive tensions of the period and by looking not just at novels, but Gothic poems and dramas he effectively takes the Gothic from the periphery of 'popular fiction', replacing it at the centre or debate about Romanticism |
| Analysis |
English literature Gothic style |
| Notes |
Bibliography: p236-251. - Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 236-251) and index |
| Subject |
Discourse analysis, Literary.
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English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
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English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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Gothic revival (Literature) -- Great Britain.
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Horror tales, English -- History and criticism.
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| LC no. |
92026012 |
| ISBN |
0415077486 |
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